A growing manufacturing and distribution organization is seeking a hands-on Financial Analyst to support business performance, financial reporting, costing, and profitability initiatives.
This role will work closely with operational and leadership teams to provide meaningful financial insights, improve product and project margin visibility, and support data-driven decision-making across the business.
The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills, a continuous improvement mindset, and experience working with costing, reporting, and operational finance in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
Key Responsibilities
Costing & Margin Analysis
- Maintain and improve product costing models for distribution and manufactured product lines
- Analyze standard costs versus actual costs to identify key profitability drivers
- Prepare gross margin reporting by product, customer, and business segment
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain teams to validate material, labour, freight, and overhead assumptions
- Support pricing decisions by providing financial analysis and margin recommendations
- Identify opportunities to improve costing accuracy and protect product profitability
Project & Business Performance Monitoring
- Monitor financial performance of integration and project-based business activities
- Prepare project-level revenue, cost, and margin reports from quotation through completion
- Analyze project variances and support investigation of cost and margin trends
- Assist with post-project financial reviews to identify improvements and lessons learned
- Support stronger financial controls and reporting processes across project operations
Business Reporting & Analysis
- Prepare monthly management reports covering sales, margins, backlog, project performance, and key financial metrics
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis activities